MASS MEDIA

The press, the radio and television play a big role

in the life of the society.

They inform, educate and entertain people. They also influence the way people look at the world and make them change their views

free time. Most of people can’t do without a newspaper

in the underground or during the lunch break. TV also dominates the life of the family most of the time. It is also a habit which impossible to resist.

reach:
60 m households (or 70% of all UK homes) have

multichannel TV sets
40.2 m Internet users

The British Media

a regular basis. When reading newspapers we learn about the

latest news and other current events.
First newspapers
First newspapers appeared many years ago in Roman times. At that time they did not look like newspapers we have today. Only in the XVI century newspapers acquired their contemporary look. First Russian newspapers appeared in the time of Peter the Great.
Types of newspapers
Today newspapers can be read by everyone. There are national, regional and local newspapers. There are newspapers published specially for professionals, for teenagers and even children.
There are newspapers which you have to pay money for and the ones you can take for free. Some newspapers are related to business, some exist for the purpose of entertainment.
There are tabloids and official newspapers. Some newspapers are issued twice a week, some – once a week, others – only in the mornings or only in the evenings.

creating a background noise. You can listen to the radio

doing some work about the house, reading a book or doing something else. On the radio you can hear music, news, poetry, various commentary and discussions. Radio programs attract a large audience. Radio brings into our homes not only entertainment and news but also cultural and educational programs. Radio is widely used in today’s world. It is the quickest mean of spreading news and the information. Radio keeps us informed about current events. So it gives us a lot of useful information

predicted the existence of radio waves; and in 1886, German

physicist, Heinrich Rudholph Hertz demonstrated that rapid variations of electric current could be projected into space in the form of radio waves similar to those of light and heat.
In 1866: Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, successfully demonstrated "wireless telegraphy." Loomis was able to make a meter connected to one kite cause another one to move, marking the first known instance of wireless aerial communication.
Guglielmo Marconi: an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph message in 1902.

The first radio broadcast was in 1906

HISTORY OF RADIO

It plays a great and a very important role in

the life of modern man. There is practically no family that doesn’t have a TV set. TV has a lot of channels. TV keeps people informed. We can learn a lot of information watching TV. We can choose programs that we like.
Philo T. Farnsworth made the first television and transmitted the first image, which was a dollar sign made up of 60 individual lines.  Farnsworth filed for a patent on his work in 1927
The first TV translation happened 22 january 1927

Television

Internet is necessary for each person. All people use the

Internet on different purposes: for communicating, for searching the information, for work, for studying, for fun and entertainment, for downloading pictures or music. We can order clothes, things, furniture, ; we can find a work or work there, for example, designing web-sites. By means of the Internet it is possible to meet new friends, to communicate with them. You can find any information, learn main news.

INTERNET

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m households have multichannel TV sets in Britaim
First newspapers appeared

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4) The first TV translation happened 1 january 1907
5) In 1866: Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, successfully demonstrated "wireless telegraphy”
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7)The first radiobroadcast was in 1906
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a strong tradition of public service broadcasting.
9) Robert Elliot Kahn filed for a patent on his work about TV in 1927

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